Park Slope Shopkeeper Opens Trash Can of Whoopass on Would-be Robber

November 9, 2010

Maybe it’s due to crime spikes recently noted by the NYPD (robbery is up more than 5 percent from this time last year), but we’re also noticing something of a spike in badass. That is to say, people fighting back against their would-be muggers and robbers with a renewed sense of fury, like all of a sudden we’re in some great big WWE match.

However…this in no way is to say that if you don’t fight back against your mugger there’s anything wrong with you. In fact, we fully support the “cowering and handing over” philosophy, the better to save our lives with, or so we’ve heard. The beating up, though — well, that is far more fun to write about.